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CVE-2026-77658 (GCVE-0-2026-77658)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-26 12:10 – Updated: 2026-08-26 13:11

Title

Dia: dia: stack buffer overflow in bus object via unvalidated handle count in project files

Summary

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Dia diagram editor when processing Network Bus objects from Dia XML project files. In objects/network/bus.c, bus_load() reads the number of bus handles from the file attribute "bus_handles" using attribute_num_data() without validating an upper bound: bus->num_handles = attribute_num_data(attr); When a bus handle is subsequently moved, bus_handle_moved() allocates two temporary arrays on the stack: parallel = (real *)g_alloca(num_handles * sizeof(real)); perp = (real *)g_alloca(num_handles * sizeof(real)); Because num_handles is fully attacker-controlled via the project file, sufficiently large values (for example 262144 or higher) cause g_alloca() to consume more stack space than the default thread stack limit (typically 8 MB on Linux), resulting in stack overflow, SIGSEGV, and potential stack frame / return-address corruption. An attacker can embed a Bus object with an excessive bus_handles count in a malicious .dia file. Exploitation requires the victim to open the file in Dia (file dialog, command line, or file association) and trigger handle manipulation (moving a bus handle), which exercises the vulnerable code path. The identical g_alloca pattern is present in objects/Misc/tree.c (copied from bus.c) and is likely vulnerable to the same class of attack via Tree objects. Affected versions: Dia 0.98.0 and earlier versions containing this code; issue confirmed on upstream master as of 2026-08-21. Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/issues/581

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-26 13:09 UTC

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

fedora redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-77658	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2520890	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/blob/master/…
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/issues/581

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
GNOME	Dia	Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.98.0 (semver)	guessed

Date Public

2026-08-21 00:00

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Robin "drzobin" Larsson for reporting this issue.

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FKIE_CVE-2026-77658

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-26 13:19 - Updated: 2026-08-28 15:44

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
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	patrick@puiterwijk.org	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/blob/master/objects/network/bus.c
	patrick@puiterwijk.org	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/issues/581

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-FF24-WMRJ-75W8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-28 18:31 – Updated: 2026-08-28 18:31

Details

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Dia diagram editor when processing Network Bus objects from Dia XML project files.

In objects/network/bus.c, bus_load() reads the number of bus handles from the file attribute "bus_handles" using attribute_num_data() without validating an upper bound:

bus->num_handles = attribute_num_data(attr);

When a bus handle is subsequently moved, bus_handle_moved() allocates two temporary arrays on the stack:

parallel = (real *)g_alloca(num_handles * sizeof(real));
perp = (real *)g_alloca(num_handles * sizeof(real));

Because num_handles is fully attacker-controlled via the project file, sufficiently large values (for example 262144 or higher) cause g_alloca() to consume more stack space than the default thread stack limit (typically 8 MB on Linux), resulting in stack overflow, SIGSEGV, and potential stack frame / return-address corruption.

An attacker can embed a Bus object with an excessive bus_handles count in a malicious .dia file. Exploitation requires the victim to open the file in Dia (file dialog, command line, or file association) and trigger handle manipulation (moving a bus handle), which exercises the vulnerable code path.

The identical g_alloca pattern is present in objects/Misc/tree.c (copied from bus.c) and is likely vulnerable to the same class of attack via Tree objects.

Affected versions: Dia 0.98.0 and earlier versions containing this code; issue confirmed on upstream master as of 2026-08-21. Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/issues/581

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-77658 (CVE-2026-77658)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-08-26 13:19 – Updated: 2026-09-02 16:27 – Source website

Details

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Dia diagram editor when processing Network Bus objects from Dia XML project files. In objects/network/bus.c, bus_load() reads the number of bus handles from the file attribute "bus_handles" using attribute_num_data() without validating an upper bound: bus->num_handles = attribute_num_data(attr); When a bus handle is subsequently moved, bus_handle_moved() allocates two temporary arrays on the stack: parallel = (real )g_alloca(num_handles * sizeof(real)); perp = (real )g_alloca(num_handles * sizeof(real)); Because num_handles is fully attacker-controlled via the project file, sufficiently large values (for example 262144 or higher) cause g_alloca() to consume more stack space than the default thread stack limit (typically 8 MB on Linux), resulting in stack overflow, SIGSEGV, and potential stack frame / return-address corruption. An attacker can embed a Bus object with an excessive bus_handles count in a malicious .dia file. Exploitation requires the victim to open the file in Dia (file dialog, command line, or file association) and trigger handle manipulation (moving a bus handle), which exercises the vulnerable code path. The identical g_alloca pattern is present in objects/Misc/tree.c (copied from bus.c) and is likely vulnerable to the same class of attack via Tree objects. Affected versions: Dia 0.98.0 and earlier versions containing this code; issue confirmed on upstream master as of 2026-08-21. Upstream report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/issues/581

Severity

7.8 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-77658	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77658	REPORT
	https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dia/-/issues/581	REPORT

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